Virginia Vezzi, sometimes given as Virginia da Vezzo, was an Italian painter, and the wife of French painter Simon Vouet.
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1624)
Simon Vouet, Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen (c. 1627), LACMA.
The Blanton Danaë before the restoration that uncovered the putto and Jupiter.
Virginia da Vezzo, portrait engraving by Claude Mellan, 1626, Metropolitan Museum.
Claude Mellan was a French draughtsman, engraver, and painter.
Virginia Vezzi
…heroine, Judith, the only certain autograph and datable painting by her: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes), engraved by Claude Mellan in 1626. Another version of the painting was auctioned at Christie's in 2006 for EUR 64,480. In 1624, Simon was also elected president of the Academy…
Self-portrait, engraving by Claude Mellan (1635), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sudarium of Saint Veronica, engraving by Claude Mellan, 1649